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  • “no, there really isn’t a celebrity I’d go gay for.”

    Not even for the story?

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can "identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.

    Ok, so where is this idea coming from ideologically? Are they trying to prove a point about their hands-off approach to COVID-19? Or is it just that they were always planning to do nothing, and they're trying to rationalize it?

  • This is a wonderful attitude to have as long as it's not in the comments of an article about how Tesla's approach is trapping people and burning them alive.

  • Which one?

    The Irredeemable Ant-Man is an interesting one - he's a low level, lazy SHIELD worker who steals an Ant-Man suit and uses it for selfish things. But you probably meant Scott Lang. I'd say Scott is more of a regular hero.

  • My wife and I established movie nights with our kids when they were 5 and 2. Everyone takes turns picking a movie, and no one is allowed to complain.

    This is how we've managed to break the pattern of our kids watching the same movies over and over and over. Since instituting movie night about a year ago, we've only seen Frozen once.

    It also gives us the opportunity to expose the kids to our favorite movies.

    The movie we've watched the most times is probably Disney's Robin Hood (3 times). Second most is a tie between Matilda, Babe, and Across the Spider-verse (2 times each). So I'd say it's going extremely well.

  • And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

  • In English we used to use the word "Scotch", like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

  • But that wasn't even the first appearance of France Nuyen on US television. She even kissed William Shatner on tv in 1958 in what was arguably the actual first interracial kiss on US television.

  • My friend was in the army and told me he got a special exception and didn't have to shave as often. But that was the army, and his job mostly involved setting up communications equipment, so maybe that matters.

    Thanks for the insight. Glad Lemmy can give context for worrying articles like these.

  • Sleipnir isn't a centaur. It's a horse with eight legs.

  • I dated a girl who could recite pi to a hundred places.

  • There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It's happened a few times in my life, and usually it's about mythology.

    One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, "Tartarus!" Someone in the back of the room shouted, "Nerd!" Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn't bother me.

    For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin's horse. It was Sleipnir, which means "Slippy". Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.

  • I'd just learned about it too. They were super easy to use. I'm going to have a lot of fun making my kids lunch.

  • My parents are great, and they did a lot for me, but they didn't put in any extra effort on things like birthdays.

    I go all out for my kids' birthdays. Like for my daughter's third birthday, I transformed the house into Elsa's ice palace. I built the exterior out of cardboard and a roll of blue plastic tablecloth, two stories tall, hanging from our indoor balcony. Then I bathed the living in blue light, covered it in snowflake decorations, and turned the AC way down.

  • They're actually PB&J sandwiches. Kids party.

  • They're peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with food dye marker on them.

    I was planning to do cookies the same way, but ran out of time.

  • The Highlander is an SUV and is thus unsafe to pedestrians and worse than a minivan according to this post.

  • Fair enough. But short beds notwithstanding, removing seats or using a roof rack hardly qualify as "doing everything trucks do and doing it better".

    I'd still rather use the truck. The original post is silly.

  • What about moving a mattress? Can't fit that in a minivan, and that comes up all the damn time.

    There are valid complaints in here, but most of it is nonsense. Trucks and SUVs are the only choice? What do you even mean by that? It's way easier to get a regular car.

    I live in Texas. I only know one person with a truck, and it's used constantly. There's something in the flatbed that wouldn't fit in a van at least once or twice a month, I'd say.